There's Still Some Fun In Politics

Up here in the Commonwealth (God save it!), there's a little known election to put somebody in the chair that Congressman Ed Markey vacated when he got elected senator, in which job he replaced John Kerry, who was named Secretary Of State, thereby giving us yet another senatorial election. We were getting really good at those. The field, alas, is not a terrific one. There's a woman named Katherine Clark, who doesn't think we have anywhere near enough wiretapping here, and a guy named Brownsberger who's getting some run as a "maverick" because he's a Democrat who's in favor of the Keystone XLdeath-funnel, as well as an outspoken fan of Citizens United, which makes Brownsberger an advocate of both literal and figurative pollution.

In the WBUR interview, he defended the Supreme Court's controversial Citizens United decision, which helped clear the way for unlimited corporate spending in political campaigns, on free speech grounds.And he said he would not favor any congressional intervention to block the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, which would transport oil from the tar sands of Canada to the Gulf Coast, arguing that the project is little more than a footnote in the fight against climate change.

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Dear Jesus, come down and shoot me with a gun.

To be fair, there's also Peter Koutoujian, who's a really decent skin himself.

Anyway, one of the candidates is a guy named Carl Sciortino, an openly gay state representative who's given himself a real shot because he's cut one of the coolest campaign spots ever. He needs some money to keep running one of the coolest campaign spots ever, so, whatever you can do. However, I have a terrible feeling that, if this ad catches on, the write-in vote for Carl Senior may knock the whole thing over.